On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
iirc, it was removed per realplayer's request???? And it is not available from packman. I believe it must be obtained from: http://www.real.com/linux
There was a thread from last year titled: RealPlayer dropped from openSUSE, why? Dated 10/31/08 - 11/04/09 on the factory list. Anyway, the reason it was removed was that Real licensed the Windows Media Codecs and in order to include RealPlayer it would have cost because you have to pay a fee to license the codecs, regardless of what Real's website claimed. That's also why openSUSE doesn't include MPlayer and VLC because they have incoporated license-"required" code like libdvdcss and mpeg2 and other stuff which makes it technically illegal to use them in the United States. Anytime I play a DVD on my linux boxes here in the US I'm violating the DMCA because I'm using an "unlicensed" program to defeat the encryption of a DVD. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org